General elections were held in Peru on 9 April 1995,[1] the first under the 1993 constitution. Incumbent President Alberto Fujimori was easily re-elected with 64.4% of the vote defeating former UN Secretary General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, whilst his Cambio 90-New Majority alliance won a majority of seats in the newly unicameral Congress.
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All 120 seats in the Congress of Peru 61 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. |
Results
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editCandidate | Party | Votes | % | |
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Alberto Fujimori | Cambio 90–New Majority | 4,798,515 | 64.42 | |
Javier Pérez de Cuéllar | Union for Peru | 1,624,566 | 21.81 | |
Mercedes Cabanillas | American Popular Revolutionary Alliance | 306,108 | 4.11 | |
Alejandro Toledo | Possible Country | 241,598 | 3.24 | |
Ricardo Belmont | Civil Works Movement | 192,261 | 2.58 | |
Raúl Diez Canseco | Popular Action | 122,383 | 1.64 | |
Ezequiel Ataucusi | Agricultural People's Front of Peru | 57,556 | 0.77 | |
Agustín Haya de la Torre | United Left | 42,686 | 0.57 | |
Luis Cáceres Velásquez | National Front of Workers and Peasants | 25,017 | 0.34 | |
Sixtilio Dalmau | New Peru Movement | 9,999 | 0.13 | |
Víctor Echegaray | Reformist Party of Peru | 9,105 | 0.12 | |
Edmundo Inga | Alternative Peru Puma | 7,006 | 0.09 | |
Miguel Campos | Peace and Development | 6,337 | 0.09 | |
Carlos Cruz | Independent Front of National Reconciliation | 5,249 | 0.07 | |
Total | 7,448,386 | 100.00 | ||
Valid votes | 7,448,386 | 82.12 | ||
Invalid/blank votes | 1,621,258 | 17.88 | ||
Total votes | 9,069,644 | 100.00 | ||
Registered voters/turnout | 12,280,538 | 73.85 | ||
Source: JNE |
Congress
editParty | Votes | % | Seats | +/– | |
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Cambio 90 – New Majority | 2,277,423 | 52.10 | 67 | +35 | |
Union for Peru | 611,804 | 14.00 | 17 | New | |
American Popular Revolutionary Alliance | 285,526 | 6.53 | 8 | –45 | |
Independent Moralizing Front | 213,777 | 4.89 | 6 | –1 | |
Possible Country | 181,397 | 4.15 | 5 | New | |
Popular Action | 146,018 | 3.34 | 4 | –22 | |
Christian People's Party | 135,236 | 3.09 | 3 | –22 | |
Renewal Movement | 130,060 | 2.98 | 3 | New | |
Civil Works Movement | 87,252 | 2.00 | 2 | New | |
United Left | 82,061 | 1.88 | 2 | –14 | |
Agricultural People's Front of Peru | 46,990 | 1.08 | 1 | +1 | |
National Front of Workers and Peasants | 46,728 | 1.07 | 1 | –2 | |
Independent Agrarian Movement | 34,463 | 0.79 | 1 | New | |
New Peru Movement | 29,557 | 0.68 | 0 | New | |
Reformist Party of Peru | 13,102 | 0.30 | 0 | New | |
Alternative Peru Puma | 12,391 | 0.28 | 0 | New | |
Apertura para el Desarrollo Nacional | 10,752 | 0.25 | 0 | New | |
Independent Front of National Reconciliation | 10,314 | 0.24 | 0 | New | |
Independent Inca Movement | 9,598 | 0.22 | 0 | New | |
Social Independent Movement | 6,588 | 0.15 | 0 | New | |
Total | 4,371,037 | 100.00 | 120 | –60 | |
Valid votes | 4,371,037 | 53.11 | |||
Invalid/blank votes | 3,859,209 | 46.89 | |||
Total votes | 8,230,246 | 100.00 | |||
Registered voters/turnout | 12,280,538 | 67.02 | |||
Source: PDBA, JNE |
References
edit- ^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p454 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3